Trainings & Guides
WordPress Essential Training
WordPress Essential Training on LinkedIn Learning is a beginner‑friendly course that guides you through setting up a WordPress environment, creating content, managing themes and plugins, and maintaining a secure, high‑performing website.
Instructor: Allie Nimmons
Released: 09/12/2024
Length: ~2 hours, 4 minutes
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Purpose: To teach learners how to build, customize, secure, and manage a modern WordPress 6.0 website.
WordPress Essential Training
WordPress Essential Training on LinkedIn Learning is a beginner‑friendly course that guides you through setting up a WordPress environment, creating content, managing themes and plugins, and maintaining a secure, high‑performing website.
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This course will provide the following:
1. What Is WordPress?
- The open-source philosophy
- What’s new in 6.6?
- The difference between .com and .org
- Navigating this course
2. Setting Up WordPress
- Choosing hosting and a domain
- Launching a WordPress site
- Creating user accounts and logging in
- Navigating the dashboard
- Preparing your WordPress environment
3. WordPress Security
- How secure is WordPress?
- Using plugins for extra security
- Using code for extra security
4. Pages
- Creating a new page
- Designing and customizing a page
- Managing pages
5. Posts
- Creating posts
- Designing and customizing a post
- Managing posts
- Using categories and tags
6. Plugins and Themes
- Finding and installing plugins
- Finding and installing themes
- Customizing themes
7. Design Customization
- Creating a menu
- Creating a footer
- More block editor features
8. Media Library
- Adding new media files
- Managing media files
9. WordPress Maintenance
- Updating WordPress, plugins, and themes
- Site health and troubleshooting
- Security maintenance
- Performance maintenance
